On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:28 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Paul wrote: > > I suppose you could put a label on the drive (with tune2fs), then mount > it by LABEL=xxxx... I dunno what else to suggest. > > linux's crappy way of handling disk device names is one of my bigger > gripes about it. its really messy in a SAN environment where there's > several storage controllers. /dev/sdf could be almost -anything-. I > prefer the c1t1d1 notation of traditional Unix systems like Solaris, > although there still can be issues identifying the channel #s
udev takes care to provide unique names to disk devices. By label, or by uuid. Take a look at /dev/disk/by-label or /dev/disk/by-uuid, and use those entries as device names. ciao andrea -- Question: “Is there a God?” Answer: “No.” From the Official God FAQ, http://www.400monkeys.com/God/
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